Orwell resident Peter Tobin calls a square dance at the Lothrop Elementary School gymnasium in Pittsford on Sept. 3, 2025. It was the first meeting of the new dance year for the Cast Off 8's, a square ...

Modern Square Dancing is dancing and thinking. Moving in rhythm to the music keeps you physically fit. All of the experts agree, your doctor will tell you that aerobic exercises are the best. Studies ...

Over the years my interests have turned to one thing or another – one of which is dancing. Specifically, I have become involved in square dancing. Through the ages dancing has been an element in ...

As people grow older, it becomes a challenge to find proper exercise that keeps their bodies active. While finding an exercise that is not too strenuous for an older body can be challenging, there is ...

Retired Navy Master Chief Virgil Forbes was doling out orders at Meade Middle School Friday night. But he wasn’t instructing service members or ROTC cadets. Forbes is the caller for the Swinging ...

The Swinging Mates’ feet still moved as beautifully to the music’s beat as a lyric poet’s rhyme. More than 100 modern Western square dancers stepped to their caller’s cadence, dazzling the crowd as ...

The name of the club is Happy Hoppers, and in Danny Williamson’s case, it is literally true. You can’t miss the way Williamson adds his own gleeful bobs and bounces, struts and skips to the moves ...

Square dancing isn't the same dance you learned in gym class. The sport is making a comeback in the Granite State.This summer, people from all over the state are traveling to the Heel and Toe Square ...

The strains of Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” are pulsing, and the dance floor is packed. “There’s a fire starting in my heart reaching a fever pitch and it’s bringing me out the dark” Allemande left, ...

Dancers arranged themselves in groups of eight Sunday on a hardwood floor with basketball hoops suspended from the walls above at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Arlington Heights. Some of the men were ...

One recent Wednesday evening, Kurt Gollhardt and Darren Gallina were preparing to live call a square dance. “Find a spot on the floor in your living room, in your RV; maybe you’re on your back porch,” ...